New research has shown nearly a quarter of UK adults will be keeping heating off this winter due to rising energy prices.

The survey of over 2,000 UK adults saw that over 23% of adults will keep the heating off and 70% said they would turn the heating on less frequently which those figures rising for those that have children.

The polls which were conducted before the announcement of the energy increase cap in October but will see the average electricity and gas prices rise from "1,971 to £3,549 a year.

Christine Jardine, a spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats stated - "Families and pensioners across the country are making heartbreaking decisions because the government has failed to save them."

She added - "It is a national scandal that parents are having to choose between heating their homes and feeding their children. 

"It shouldn't be like this. Britain is on the brink of the worst cost of living crisis in a century and yet still Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will not scrap the energy price rise."

Other parties and MPs have put increasing pressure on the Conservative leadership to further windfall tax on oil and gas companies.

A spokesperson for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy added - "As part of our £37bn package of help for households, one in four of all UK households will see £1,200 extra support, provided in instalments across the year, and everyone will receive a £400 discount on their energy bills over winter," they said.

Despite this, the two Prime Ministerial candidates have refused due to a surge in wholesale prices due to Ukraine/Russian War.

Boris Johnson also cited this as a reason as he stated that the impacts of Ukraine will affect us all.

He later added, "if we're paying in our energy bills for the evils of Vladimir Putin, the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood".